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Let It Be... Naked

	Let It Be... Naked The Beatles Toshiba EMI Japan, 2003 average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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Japanese edition of 2003 album contains the same amount of tracks as all other two disc versions but includes a bonus Japanese booklet & obi-strip. EMI.

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Cuando escuché por primera ocasión este cd, realmente es distinto al trabajo que se publicó bajo el mando del productor Phil Spector en 1970. Si bien, era la última etapa del grupo por el cúmulo de problemas y desacuerdos que tenían. Este trabajo es una joya. Habrá personas detractoras que no justifiquen esta versión de Let it be, y que hasta algunos "críticos" lo comparen con el Lp de The Rolling Stones "Let it bleed" que también fue publicado por esa fecha (comparación que resulta injustificada, pues entre ambos grupos hay una diferencia en cuanto al concepto musical). Originalmente, concebido como Get back, este proyecto resultaba ser interesante; grabar un album en vivo, sin tener que trabajr mucho en él, con los famosos recordings, pero por los problemas internos entre los "Fab Four" no fructificó. Sin embargo, no obstante el tiempo transcurrido, el producto concebido en primer instancia es fenomenal. Si en este cd, hay un amalgama interesante de canciones. Por ejemplo, "The long and winding road" está desprovista de esas orquestaciones que no tenían ninguna justificación en estar incluidas en la canción. Tenía razón, McCartney en disgustarse por el trabajo hecho por Spector en esta rola. Esta canción suena conmovedora, de gran sentimiento, quizás -lo supongo así- porque se avecinaba la disolución del grupo. Otra canción que se escucha sensacional es "Across the universe". Si la letra de esta canción de Lennon es preciosa, solo faltaba el toque final en cuanto al arreglo musical y aquí como está en este cd, es maravillosa; una voz cristalina, sin la orquestación al estilo Hollywood (como salió en Let it be) o con los coros femeninos (Past masters vol 2); definitivamente en mi gusto personal, me quedo con esta versión. De las demás rolas, Let it be suena también distinto; el trabajo que efectuó Billy Preston le da ese toque de sentimiento. Definitivamente, este material bajo la producción de George Martin, es un trabajo 100% beatle. Si, porque en el de Spector, si bien, el album en algunos momentos suena muy bien, hay otros, en que todo ese trabajo de producción quita o minimiza el sonido beatle. No hay que olvidarnos que Martin es un gran conocedor de la música clásica y que él supo dotar a algunas canciones de los Beatles esos arreglos dándoles un efecto estético muy agradable y magistral -escúchese Eleonor Rigby, I am the walrus, A day in the life, entre otras-. Mención aparte, hago de I've got a feeling y One after 909, que son dos grandes rolas rockanroleras, de la última, me atrevo a decir, que suena a skiffle, nostalgia por los primeros años en que comenzó el grupo, o qué decir de Two of us, una canción al estilo folk. De tintes blueseros "Don't let me down", interpretación fluida; en mi opinión puedo apreciar mejor en este cd el trabajo hecho por Starr en la batería, sobretodo en los "platos", además, sin duda es una de las mejores canciones de Lennon, en la etapa final del grupo. Me hubiera gustado que hubieran incluido los ocho minutos de la jocosa y divertida "Dig it", aunque hay que conformarse con las versiones sacadas en los famosos "bootlegs". Para cualquier beatlémano, o amante de la música en general, este cd vale la pena adquirirlo. : )

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A Revelation

This is an incredible piece of work. The entire lyrics of the Let It Be... Naked CD have been painstakingly translated into Japanese by Yoko Ono. The vocal tracks of each song have been removed and replaced with Paul McCartney, Julian Lennon and Dhani Harrison singing these lyrics in Japanese! When Dhani and Julian sing solo it's quite difficult to tell their voices from those of their famous fathers especially in Japanese, and when the voices blend in harmony it's impossible! It's such a heartwarming treat to know the Beatles have gone so far out of their way for the sake of their Japanese fans.

Nah! I'm pulling your leg. This is the same as the domestic version with only a Japanese lyric sheet added.

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Better, but still not a great Beatles album

"Let It Be" was always my least favorite Beatles album, although it was years before I understood that Phil Spector had gone all "Wall of Sound" on the tracks after the Beatles and producer George Martin washed their hands of the entire thing and left it with engineer Glyn Johns. For most of that period my opinion was based on comparing "Let It Be" with "Abbey Road," in which case there was no question as to which album was better. Beyond that I never really liked "The Long and Winding Road" or "Let It Be," dismissing them as Paul McCartney's attempt to write another "Hey Jude," and only moderately liking "I Me Mine" and "Across the Universe," which I was moderately horrified to discover were two of the tracks Spector worked over, "The Long and Winding Road" being the third.

Of course, now we know as much about the history of this album as anything in the Beatles catalogue, which means even with "Let It Be...Naked" available knowledgeable Beatles fans can complain that this is not the "Get Back" album that Johns originally pieced together before Spectator came in and overdubbed three tracks. Gone from the old version are "Dig It" and "Maggie Mae," with "Don't Let Me Down" added. Then the order gets reshuffled, so that "Get Back" starts the album and "Let It Be" ends it. In fact, if you have the original track listings memorized numerically the only one with the same number is #2, "Dig a Pony." There is also a bonus disc, "Fly on the Wall," which lets us hear the Beatles at work in rehersal and in the studio during January 1969, which is worth a listen to one or twice.

The net result is that "Let It Be...Naked" is better than "Let It Be," but the result is still not a great Beatles album. Maybe what they needed to do was more like what happened to "With the Beatles" when it was turned into their first American release, "Meet the Beatles." Throw in "The Ballad of John and Yoko," "Old Brown Shoe," and maybe even "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" and then we would be getting closer to the next level. Besides, I miss John Lennon's "hope we passed the audition" at the end of "Get Back." There is such a thing as cleaning up an album too much. All of this just makes it even more impressive that after the "Let It Be" debacle that the Beatles went back in the studio and went out on top with "Abbey Road."

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Tracks
Get Back | Dig a Pony | For You Blue | Long and Winding Road | Two of Us | I've Got a Feeling | One After 909 | Don't Let Me Down | I Me Mine | Across the Universe | Let It Be

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